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Just been reminded that Project Honeynet resurrected their challenges. If you're a packet monkey or log hound like me they're well worth taking a look at. One of the best things about them are the explanations put up after a challenge has been won are informative, so even if you're not going to win any prizes ...

I spend probably far too much time trawling my logs looking for odd behavior. Now I don't get much traffic here, but I'm a Yorkshireman so I'm stingy with my bandwidth, so I'll happily add search engines to my robots.txt or block them at the firewall if they get too greedy and trawl the site too ...

Troubleshooting a network issue with a new Unbuntu install at work, trying to gather as much information about it to clobber the people who say there's nothing wrong. To me it's blatantly a firewall issue, to prove it I'll just fire up traceroute and... traceroute is not installed?? Oh yes I can just apt-get install it ...

According to Cyber Security Challenge's FB page the "Next cipher challenge is in the pipeline." "In the pipeline" actually is some time in october. If you want some warning it might be worth following their twitter feed

Looking through the logs logs of my web server last night I noticed some odd behaviour, a complete spidering of tamonten.com in a couple of mins from an ip address. No biggy, it's just a bot, but the UA string was that of a normal browser and at no point did it request robots.txt Tut tut ...